Ghanaian popular fiction : "thrilling discoveries in conjugal life" & other tales
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Ghanaian popular fiction : "thrilling discoveries in conjugal life" & other tales
(Western African studies)
J. Currey , Ohio University Press, 2000
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアフリカ専攻
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Note
Based on the author's dissertation (Ph.D., University of Birmingham, England)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-173) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: J. Currey : paper ISBN 9780852555569
Description
This is a study of the unofficial side of African fiction.
Stephanie Newell's book reveals the undocumented writing, publishing and reading of pamphlets and paperbacks which exist outside of mainstream mass-production in Ghana. Gender relations are a dominant theme in the stories which explore and symbolically resolve commonly held pre-occupations about marriage, money and manhood.
North America: Ohio U Press
Table of Contents
- Introduction - the relevance of postcolonial theories to the study of West African popular literatures
- the proverbial space in Ghanian popular literatures
- "making up their own minds" -readers, interpretations and the difference of view
- Ghanian readers' comments on the role of authors and the function of literature
- "pen-pictures" of readers - the early days of Ghanian popular fiction
- an incident of colonial intertextuality - the adventures of the black girl in her search for Mr Shaw
- the "book famine" in postcolonial West Africa
- "two things may be alike but never the same" - E.K. Mickson's parodic techniques
- "those mean and empty-headed men" - the shifting representations of wealth and women in two Ghanian popular novels
- "reading the right sort of books and articles" - Kate Abbam's Obaa Sima
- uprising genres -Akosua Gyamfuaa-Fofie's romantic fiction
- conclusion - popular novels and international African fiction.
- Volume
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: J. Currey : cloth ISBN 9780852555576
Description
This is a study of the unofficial side of African fiction: the undocumented writing, publishing and reading of pamphlets and paperbacks which exist outside of mainstream mass-production. Gender relations are a dominant theme inthe stories which explore and symbolically resolve commonly held pre-occupations about marriage, money and manhood.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - the relevance of postcolonial theories to the study of West African popular literatures
- the proverbial space in Ghanian popular literatures
- "making up their own minds" -readers, interpretations and the difference of view
- Ghanian readers' comments on the role of authors and the function of literature
- "pen-pictures" of readers - the early days of Ghanian popular fiction
- an incident of colonial intertextuality - the adventures of the black girl in her search for Mr Shaw
- the "book famine" in postcolonial West Africa
- "two things may be alike but never the same" - E.K. Mickson's parodic techniques
- "those mean and empty-headed men" - the shifting representations of wealth and women in two Ghanian popular novels
- "reading the right sort of books and articles" - Kate Abbam's Obaa Sima
- uprising genres -Akosua Gyamfuaa-Fofie's romantic fiction
- conclusion - popular novels and international African fiction.
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